HREVE, JOSEPH, M. D., of Haddonfield, N. J., was born at Longacoming, Gloucester county, N. J. (now
Berlin, Camden county, N. J.), September 24th, 1822. He is the oldest son of Samuel Shreve, a prominent merchant and farmer of that place, and grandson
of Joseph Shreve, of Mansfield, Burlington county, N. J., all of whom were members of the Society of Friends. Dr. Shreve acquired a common school
education in his native town, and was afterward engaged for several years in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He was married in 1844, and having
the care of a family, he became acquainted with the properties of many of the medicines used in allopathy, which was the only system then practiced in
the town where he resided. He was a man of observation, of study, and of great practical sagacity, and became satisfied that something beyond the
ordinary practice of allopathy was necessary to reach many of "the ills that human flesh is heir to." He then turned his attention to homopathy,
giving it a candid, impartial examination. The more he studied the new law of cure, the more was he convinced of its utility, and that it is the system
best adapted to cure the maladies of mankind. He therefore continued to study and practice it in his own family for several years with great success.
Afterward, at the solicitation and by the advice of many of his friends, and especially of Dr. Bowman H. Shivers, of Haddonfield, N. J., he was induced
to enter the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, in 1864. In 1866, he was graduated from that institution, and was afterward matriculated
at and graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. Since that time he has had a successful practice in his native town until 1871, and
afterward in Haddonfield, N. J., where he now resides. Dr. Shreve is a member of the American Institute of Homopathy, of the New Jersey State
Homopathic Society, and of the West Jersey District Homopathic Society.